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Patients and Hospitals Benefit from Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
Imaging Economics, 09/03/09
As the United States wrestles with reforming health care, hospitals participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Premier health care alliance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) VBP project raised their overall quality by an average of 17.2% over 4 years based on their delivery of more than 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures to patients in the 5 clinical areas.
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